Janes, who is now in Japan.
Mrs. Janes said they were married in Perth, Australia, in 1915, Last year she went to Perth to seo her mother, who was ill, The first intimation that she had that her husband did] not want her to come back was when she wrote him a letter and he answered by cable, "Strongly advise staying with your mother indefinitely]
you if should change mind." This was sent from Tokyo.
In June and July petitioner wrote her husband and said she was coming back. In response he wired saying, "Make no arrangements ex. pecting transfer." On August 14 she sent a cable from Australia saying that she was coming to Tokyo. She received no answer, so went to Hongkong and from: there wired again saying that she was arriving in Japan on September 23. On the boat she received a wireless saying that the matter could not be discussed, but for her to wait for of answer in Shanghai. However, she went on to Kobe, but he did' not come to see her. She returned to Shanghai and here received the letter. This said, "I refuse to be worried by your nonsense any longer," and made reference to "not being' happily married." In it respondent} said that he would not pay her expenses in any place but in Perth, Questioned as to what the phrase in the letter meant reading, "'the final straw that broke the camel's that this evidently meant because she was returning to her husband. He did not want her to come back.
Questioned as to her husband's nature, witness said that he was! very "jealous and imagined things about her that did not exist. The letter mentioned something about holding hands with a certain man in Shanghai, but witness denied thi It also mentioned that he had been Heft out of certain tea parties, but this -she also denied. Another reference wag made to a certain man who was on the boat when she had gone to Australia, He and his sis had been very nice to witness, and she wrote a letter tothe man and that they woud be glad to do ig to make their stay in Japan agreeable. He had written her letter in turn, which, she had bever teen and this was intercepted by her}
"Mr, G. J; "McCarthy © wa' then! called and said that he knew that! the couple had not lived together for at least a year. Mr. Janes was living] in Japan.
Miss Viola Smith said that she-had known the couple for four years. Mr. Janes, from her observation, had been of a suspicious nature and it-was evident that Mrs. Janes was not herself in his presence.
His Honour then ordered that the order be drawn up.
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